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After an almost unremittingly rough 2018, and quiet start to 2019, Bitcoin markets have recently seen demand sustain the sudden rise in price that took BTC back above $5,000 at the start of the April. Indeed, the last few days have seen a couple of positive news stories push prices back towards the $6,000-mark theyRead more

Any fans of privacy coins and mining may well have spotted the recent massive increase in the mining difficulty of ZCash (ZEC) during April: Chart from Bitinfocharts The recent leap has seen ZEC’s hash rate jump from just under 3GH/s to 4GH/s (4 Billion hashes per second) during the course of the month, hitting anRead more

People come to mining from very different angles, for a range of different reasons – but whether your motivation is ideological or financial, the heart of the matter is coming to a conclusion about which coin to mine. Your choice could be based purely on principle, purely on profit, but it’s more likely to beRead more

Initially agreed in the early weeks of the year by Ethereum developers, the implementation of Programmatic Proof of Work – aka ProgPoW – protocols in Ethereum’s code was rubber-stamped last week.  Though it is far from clear when the changes will be implemented, the intention of the move is crystal clear: to defeat the effortsRead more

Launched just last month, Grin is currently one of the hottest and most profitable cryptocurrencies to mine on a GPU. So we’ve worked as quickly as possible to integrate Grin mining into Cudo Miner, and are pleased to announce its available to mine today! What’s so great about Grin? Grin is the community-led implementation ofRead more

This week we’re pleased to announce the GPU overclocking feature for AMD miners is now live through our Windows build. This means AMD miners can now set core clock, memory clock, power limiting and fan speed from within the application! ? Below, we take a look at what else is new and what we have inRead more

2019, we’re coming for you! With little over a week for the first development sprint of 2019, our team made some excellent progress with improving a number of features, refreshing the miners appearance and also fixing some pesky glitches. All of our miners should now be on v0.9.4. If you’re miner is still showing asRead more

Following a week-long benchmark test, our software produced mining revenues significantly higher than our nearest GUI mining software competitors. Setup: All machines running i5-2400 CPU’s with 8GB of RAM All NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics cards using driver 417.22 All machines were running in the same room (same temperature) Each GUI miner set to auto mineRead more

Bitcoin and the majority of altcoins are at a 13 month low and some analysts predict further falls. Miners around the world and especially in countries where electricity is expensive are selling off or hibernating their equipment. The bubble has well and truly burst from a coin price perspective. But is it all doom andRead more

In part one of our NVIDIA review series for mining we benchmarked the RTX 2080 (watch it here) to see how it stacked up against the current king and more widely used GTX 1080 Ti. The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 range is part of the new generation of Turing GPU-based cards released back in SeptemberRead more